Unfortunately, your request cannot be processed online at the moment, since you plan to travel with more children than adults. Of course, we also have a good offer for you but we would like to give you some personal consultation in order to offer you the best room constellation possible.

Unfortunately, your request cannot be processed online at the moment, since you plan to travel with more children than adults. Of course, we also have a good offer for you but we would like to give you some personal consultation in order to offer you the best room constellation possible.

a&o's recipe for success – simply the best

What makes us special and what makes us the most competitive company in the low-budget sector in Europe?

One simple idea.

The company's founders Oliver Winter and Michael Kluge always wanted to create a professionally run, inexpensive and yet still very central place to stay for backpackers, youth groups and families. This concept distinguishes us completely from a youth hostel. Until that time youth groups had to make do with youth hostels in outlying districts or off-season dates and also be members of a youth hostel association, since all youth hostels were state-owned at that time. Oliver Winter and Michael Kluge developed a hostel concept combining the most important and guest-oriented elements of hotels and youth hostels all under one roof.

The modern hostel concept is based on 3 fundamental pillars:

professionalism

central location

and open to everyone.

Since we are the leading youth travel hostel in Germany, security is a very important part of our work. For this reason we have had our locations classified by DEHOGA and the youth travel quality management group QMJ.

a&o - Zeitgeist, lifestyle and fun meet a classic hotel

a&o presents itself in the market distinctively and consistently, regardless in which city. This branding and market leadership in the youth travel segment has created a product that has a high recognition value. Moreover, we have optimized our concept such that all bookings done online are entered fully automatically in our auto-update system developed in-house, thus allowing us to offer very dynamic price management. We are the only provider with a real-time booking tool for groups.

Through these innovations, a flexible workforce and a centrally managed sales and marketing team we are able to keep personnel costs at 12 %, much below the branch average. We don't just have strong links to our employees, by means of a turnover commission, but also to the organizers and customers we have won with our professionalism!